CALEDONIA - Cortney Kling Bardega and her mother are going to Hollywood.

Last month, 14-year-old Cortney was riding in the car with her mother, Shannon Bardega, when her dream trip was announced over the radio.

One lucky winner and guest were going to have the chance to win an all-expense paid trip to Hollywood to meet the The Jonas Brothers for an exclusive concert.

Cortney said her jaw dropped for an entire 10 minutes as she thought about what it would be like to meet her teen idols, whose pictures decorate her entire room.

Little did Cortney, a Crestview Park resident, know that her dream really could come true.

The WXSS (103.7 FM) radio contest began at 7 a.m on Oct. 20. Hoping for the best, Shannon, 32, who works as a nanny in Franklin, called at 11 a.m. But she didn't have any luck getting through. Then she tried again right before 2 p.m.

That time the phone rang for at least eight minutes and she knew that meant she was in line. But she didn't really think she was Caller 25 until the radio announcer picked up the phone. Slowly she told the radio announcer the last two numbers of the four-digit code to win the tickets. She was correct.

It took her a moment for the news to sink in, then she thought of her daughter's dream.

"My first thought was 'Cortney is going to have a heart attack,' " Shannon said. "'This is going to make her the

happiest 14-year-old on the face of the Earth.'"

When she hung up the phone, she immediately called her own mother. Her voice was so shaky her mother thought something was wrong. But it was the exact opposite.

This past summer, with high gas and food prices, the family had to cut out their annual trip to Arkansas to visit relatives. And her husband had to pick up extra hours to handle house payments and other bills.

"For something like this to happen, it just feels really good," Shannon said. "(It's) something to look forward to."

The trip includes round-trip airfare for two, two nights in a Hollywood hotel, ground transportation and tickets to an invitation-only Jonas Brothers concert. The contest officials told Shannon the concert will only have about 100 attendees and they will likely get a chance to meet the band in person, she said.

To break the news to Cortney, Shannon placed a note inside of blueprints for a house and told her daughter she was thinking about building a house with the prints.

Then, when Cortney came home, Shannon casually flipped through the blueprints until coming to the page where she inserted a note that announced the real surprise - the tickets to Hollywood for the weekend of Nov. 21.

Once Cortney understood it was real, she started crying and thanked her mother

repeatedly.

"I didn't think anything like that could ever happen to me. It still doesn't seem real," Cortney said.

While Cortney is dreaming about meeting her idols and staring up at the posters on her ceiling at night, her mother is looking forward to spending time with her daughter.

"This is going to be the best mother-daughter experience we may ever have … It's an amazing feeling to be able to share this with her," Shannon said. "I'm happy I can make one of my kid's dreams come true."